Net Yaroze Month: Mah Jongg

In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we liked them. You may have other opinions as to the ranking, which is awesome.

To learn more about Net Yaroze, read our introductory article here.

Mahjong is a tile-based game from China. The game is several hundred years old, but the advantage of the computerised version is that you don’t need to set up the 144 tiles.

Mah Jongg is based on a solitaire variant of the game, where the aim is to remove all of the tiles from the board. You do this by finding a pair of tiles – but each tile must have at least one horizontal side ‘free’.

There are 18 different starting layouts (known as ‘dragons’) for the tiles, to keep things interesting.

Gerhard Rittenhofer’s version of the game is polished and it looks and plays nice. How much you like this game though, all depends on how much you like Mahjong I guess.

Game: Mah Jongg
By: Gerhard Rittenhofer
Genre: Puzzle
Available on Euro Demos: 39, 42, 79, 88, 92

Net Yaroze Month rankings:​

1. Time Slip
2. Blitter Boy
3. Rocks n Gems
4. Total Soccer Yaroze
5. Terra Incognita
6. Super Bub Contest
7. Robot Ron
8. Decaying Orbit
9. Psychon
10. INVS
11. Snowball Fight
12. Haunted Maze
13. Roller
14. Pushy IIB
15. Gravitation
16. Down
17. Arena
18. Squeak
19. Adventure Game
20. Katapila
21. Sam the Boulderman
22. Pssst!
23. Pandora’s Box
24. [U]Mah Jongg[/U]
25. Game Involving Triangles
26. Yarozians
27. Tanx
28. PingPing
29. Opera of Destruction
30. Video Poker Simulator
31. Shroud
32. A Dog Tale
33. Between the Eyes
34. Bouncer 2
35. Yaroze Rally
36. Sphere
37. Blockz
38. Technical Demo
39. Surf Game

Still to play:​

• Samsaric Asymptotes
• Hover Car Racing
• Clone